THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 5

THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

aV.--.'.SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS. - The following letter is'bcing sent by the Aapier Chamber of Commerce to the Minister"for''jßail\vdyS:~;' '~v; ■:r : :.l: ; chamber; respectfully brings 'under v. 11 ?" 0 ®, ft®;universal, dissatisfaction • 'Which I s , felt;"at thonew railway- timeJiaow: which' came -into force "on' December WMt/:ana!.;'as'X understand that' the-New Plymouth: .peopje anxious.-that tho . /tinie-.tableiof train-shall be restored-;to.-',that in, use before' the late oJianges werei made,; my . chamber .therev -fiaggests;:that, the Kapicr 'express shalrstai't. from .AVellington at 9.10 a.m. and run as follows:—' Leave Wellington 9.10 a.m.; - arrive Pa merston North' 12.58;, (lunch)leavelalmcrston North 1.20-' p.m., '.taking .passeugers. from Slain Trunk express arriving , 3 P. ; ; a f T i™ -W<xWyille 2.20 p.tri.'; leave )' eo.dvillo ;2.30 T p.m. J \ talcing.: passengers ■from ..W^rarapa l trtuii':,oi;rmng at,';sayi 2 -P'® '■ I ® , So, : p.m.^ctP.'eprlier.j , Andtt*atjijhe:iespress',froin,-. Napier, ,sh'ail-, run;, as;-followsr-Leavo'j Napier '8.45. ajn.;' ?,l rl . 7G ■' Woodvillo -12.55 (passengers ; for' Wairarapa :Will. 'change"' and ; take ,'trairi ■'oa-ying' ttt ,1.20 'p.m:,',.lunch-.there); leave •JSWTMJ®"!' 15 . r IPalmer6t6ri North- .2.20. p.m. ..(passengers:; for Main: -trunk" will 'change .-liere); leave - Palmers-. ton.-North. 2.30 p.m. ; arrive.Wellington 6.15 p.m.., vy?:-I, ; '.W7' "As the express service skefched out above takes tho'-running from -Woodvillo at, 2.30: p.in; lo' Napier,..!, h'ave 'to suggest that the ,mixed train'- which'-starts iat 2.35 .be .delayed, to: tho-old tirao at 3 p.m., into Napier at, say, 9.20 p.m." : ■ j:' It : ;>s. further suggested: that:: the. .train .which'.leaves "Waipukurau'at-.- G.SO "a.m:; -and.arrives_ at Woodvilleiit 10.25 a.m., be run 'on through the: Gorge, to Palmerston North'.';to. enable , passengers ;to -join the Wallington-Wanganui-New Plymouth express, .-which,,if'run to the old time-table, ; would . be : leaving ' Palmerston f North ' at 11.55 that,. in _ tlie event of . the timetable; being revised,' the. train service.: ih : : .tho new time-table ''which leaves: Palmers--ton' North'-at- 7: a.m'.; arriving,in Napier ;at ■}.2.8; p.mV,:and ; leaving ■ Napier' at. 3.5 -p.m.; . arriving Palmerstoa North at.:l(Ms p.m.; : bo-continued. -.✓ .; Teiegraphl-Special OoriespondenU' ■. Napier, January 12. -.-': '.! The secretary, of the. Chamber of; Com-; merco (Mr. C. Douglas)' this niorning 'received'a.petition frotu-tho cab proprietors . and earners of-Napier to be'forwarded 1 to. .the / Minister , for ■ Railways ,regarding "the ineonvenieneo of tho present - railway: time-table so'far as.it affects .them." .The petition, states: "Your petitioners,' -..whocarry on '.business 'in the city. of Napier, . havei been' grievously affected in their hoars oflabour and finaucially.and have been otherwise seriously inconvenienced by the'. alteration in : - tho ...'Wellington-' Napier , time-table, .which came 'into operation, on the sixth day. of 1909. •Your :petitioners have in;,consequence to work-four hours per day .'longer.'. TJnder ■ the i iild ' system: your petitioners. were enV abled;.tb j concentrate their,.: attention, on tho two' principal: daily - services; 1 :.but. un-: -der the new, arrangement, the, passenger servicc'jias.been disorganised,' and - : yoifr petitioners' takings have / been consequently reduced by some 25 per cent. The •servico' between Wellington "and .Napier, is no'w' thb' slow ; est in the Dominion,,-and •this fact I'lias r a. harmful effect on , the tourist' trade, and :.'contributes to the above-mentioned diminution lin'your petitioners'. 1 earnings.., -Your petitioners, are led to expect treatment from the present Government, which has 'always oviriced as part of its' policy a desire .to shorten, tlm hours of the'working classes;- •' Wherefore your petitioners' , pray. ■that the'-present, service be discontinued, and;tho, old system,' or one as approximate, thereto as; the demands: of tho service generally-.will permit,' be "reinstated." Then follows the- names' of 49 cab proprietors and carriers. - . . 'y - :